A day spent exploring around our beautiful region will definitely whet the appetite for some delicious local food and drink.

From cosy pub lunches to award winning pies, seasonal hampers to fish and chips by the harbour, we have some of the finest food producers in the country on our doorstep and something for everyone to enjoy. Here are just some of some of our favourites.

THE RIVERSIDE BAKEHOUSE

Abbey St. Bathans
Duns
TD11 3TX

The Riverside Bakehouse is a small bakery and cafe located in rural hamlet of Abbey St Bathans near Duns.

Handcrafted small batches of slowly fermented sourdough bread made in a time honoured way using the power of the wild yeasts. The Cafe also offers a range of delicious seasonal cakes, soups and salads with focus on local produce.

Autumn / Winter Hours: Friday-Sunday 10.00 AM – 4.00 PM

www.riversidebakehouse.co.uk

THE ALLANTON INN

Allanton
Duns
TD11 3JZ

Set in the centre of the peaceful conservation village of Allanton, The Allanton Inn is a charming coaching inn dating from the eighteenth century. Delicious, seasonal local food and award winning local produce.

Champions of fine local Borders produce such as Preston Farm Beetroot and Standhill Tomatoes from Denholm. Local farmer, butcher & friend, Adam, supplies pork products from Reivers Foods. Organic free range eggs, freshly laid two miles away at Edington Mains, and honey from the Robson family at the Chain Bridge Honey Farm. Fresh fish is caught or landed locally at Eyemouth and delivered daily. We make our own bread daily using flour milled locally at Heatherslaw Mill. We have a good selection of Northumbrian and Scottish Cheeses to choose from. Our desserts are all home-made although we do source the best award winning ice cream from Giacopazzis in Eyemouth.

www.allantoninn.co.uk

GIACOPAZZI’S

Eyemouth
TD14 5HU

Our award winning Fish & Chip Restaurant, Takeaway and Ice Cream Parlour is a long established, family run and family friendly business. Classically situated next to the harbour in the seaside town of Eyemouth. All of our ice cream and sorbet is made fresh each day on the premises and on any given day we have a wide range of both traditional and original flavours.

Our ice cream and sorbet can be served in a wide variety of cones, tubs, or dishes, topped with a fantastic selection of toppings and sauces or even turned in to a fabulous ice cream dessert or sundae. When you visit, you can choose to simply enjoy your favourite flavour in a cone or treat yourself to a classic 99, a memorable slider or a jaw dropping Knickerbocker Glory!

www.giacopazzis.co.uk

JIM CLARK CAFÉ & BISTRO

17 Market Street
Duns
TD11 3BY

Enjoy breakfast, Lunch, Coffees, Teas and delicious home baked scones and cakes – the perfect place to make a pitstop as you start or finish the Jim Clark Trail. Jim Clark Café Bistro has become locally renowned as the place to eat and drink in Duns.

OBLO DELI

Eyemouth
TD14 5HU

With carefully chosen items from small artisan Italian producers and an impressive selection of Scottish foods and unique items you won’t find in the supermarkets, our new range provides you with a deli shopping experience that’s unique in Eyemouth.
Nestled in a corner of Oblo Restaurant, we now have a hand-picked range of gorgeous food and drink products for you to browse when visiting or while you dine!

Our hampers make a superb gift come ready made or they can be tailored from our deli range to your bespoke requests.

www.oblobar.com

EBBCARRS CAFÉ

St Abbs St Abbs Harbour
TD14 5PW

Ebbcarrs friendly run café located on the harbour front in the picturesque fishing village of St Abbs. Serving local seafood, light lunches soup and sandwiches.

Open 10am- 4pm (November-Easter) Closed Monday’s
Open 10am-5pm (Easter- October) 7 days a week

JARVIS PICKLE

Acredale
Eyemouth
TD14 5LQ

Jarvis Pickle manufacture award winning pies in Eyemouth, you can buy them here at the Food Store along with many other local and speciality products.

Good food from the Scottish Borders. We make pies and we’ve been told they’re pretty tasty – traditional meat, fish, vegetarian and vegan filled pastry pockets.

We’ve won 30 British Pie Awards in our three years attending. Including Champion Fish Class 2018 with our Cullen Skink Pie, Best Meat Pie Scotland 2018 with our Pork and Blue Cheese Pie, Champion Vegetarian Class 2019 with our Spinach, Goat Cheese and Sweet Potato Pie and Champion Steak and Kidney 2020 with our Steak and Kidney Pie. We’ve also got Great Taste Awards for our Vegan Mushroom and Chestnut with Truffle Oil Pie, Pork and Blue Cheese Pie, Venison, Port & Redcurrant Pie and Cullen Skink Pie.

We have something for everyone from organic meats to vegan goods and a wide range of gluten free products. We are licensed and stock beer from several regional brewers, a range of craft gins, a selection of quality whisky and more.

www.jarvispickle.com

THE BLACK BULL

Black Bull Street
Duns
TD11 3AR

This family run 200-year-old hotel is well worth seeking out. The cosy wood panelled bar is popular with locals while the lounge is well suited to families. The restaurant specialises in fresh local sourced produce and has an intimate, relaxed and candlelit atmosphere. The secluded beer garden has a gazebo and play area and can be enjoyed during the summer. The bedrooms are named after local historical figures.

NOTE: No food on Mondays or on winter Sundays

www.blackbullhotelduns.co.uk

THE SPOTTY DOG

3 High Street
Lauder
TD2 6SS

Dedicated to supplying a fantastic range of local, seasonal and organic produce alongside continental specialities. Now with fine wines, beers and spirits alongside fabulous hampers.

www.spottydog.co.uk

Just 10 miles from Coldstream, the new and award-winning Jim Clark Motorsport Museum in Duns is a must for all motor racing fans and a great day out for the whole family. The experience is enhanced with a stunning driving tour which celebrates the life of Jim Clark OBE, Scottish Borders Farmer and Formula One Racing Legend.

Berwickshire is a very special part of the country, an area where the River Tweed forms a natural boundary between Scotland and England. The Jim Clark Trail takes you on a journey through Jim Clark’s Berwickshire, the scenic driving tour takes you along many of the same country roads which the World Champion Motor Racing Driver would have driven on all those years ago.

‘The Quiet Champion’

To many, Jim Clark was the greatest racing driver of all time. But he was also a quiet farmer from the Scottish Borders.

Jim Clark dominated world motor racing like no one before or since due to his success in all types of motor sport. But alongside his remarkable natural ability as a racing driver and winning partnership with Lotus, he was also much admired for his sportsmanship as a gentleman.

Nearly invincible in the car, he seemed vulnerable out of it and a reluctant hero but few champions were so dominant and fewer still are remembered so fondly even today. The sport was shocked by the death of its shining star at just 32 years of age and now more than 50 years later, his memory and inspiration lives on and is cherished by many to this day.

The Jim Clark Motorsport Museum, Duns

Jim Clark was Scotland’s first, and double, Formula One World Champion, Indy 500 winner and one of the greatest racing drivers of all time. The new Jim Clark Motorsport Museum is a-must for motor racing fans and anyone looking for a great day out. Celebrate his life and inspiring racing career with an interactive experience. Explore his incredible career within the motor racing world and his life beyond farming in the Scottish Borders. Discover Jim’s cars and trophies, watch him race in films from the time, while the simulator will allow you to jump into the driving seat.

44 Newtown Street, Duns, TD11 3BY

For opening hours visit www.jcmm.org.uk

OPEN until November. Advanced booking ONLY. Limited opening times: MONDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY 10:00-16:00 (closed 12:15-13:15) & SUNDAY 13:00-16:00  due to coronavirus. 

The Jim Clark Trail – Scenic Driving Tour

As you leave Duns, the Jim Clark Trail takes you on a journey through Jim Clark’s Berwickshire, where you will discover the places and stories behind this ‘Quiet Champion’.

The place that Jim Clark called “Home”

CHIRNSIDE

Jim Clark’s home village and his final resting place

The son of a farmer, Jim Clark was born on 4th March 1936 in Kilmany, Fife. When he was six, the family moved to Berwickshire when Jim’s father took over Edington Mains Farm near Chirnside.

Chirnside Parish Church commands a spectacular uninterrupted view looking south to the Cheviot Hills and it is here in the kirkyard that you will find Jim Clark’s final resting place.

The reaction in Berwickshire to his tragic death, where huge crowds had turned out to welcome him home after his world title victories, was one of shock and disbelief.

His gravestone gives another indication of the modesty of the man, ‘Farmer, Edington Mains’ comes before any mention of his motor racing achievements.

The same can be said about the special Memorial Clock and plaque in the village which was designed by his friend Ian Scott-Watson. Above the clock there is a simple wireframe 49 Lotus, a typically understated memorial to this, the most modest of sporting superstars.

What Jim Clark achieved, and the manner in which he did so, explains why he is still held in such high regard more than 50 years later.

EDINGTON MAINS

The family home of Jim Clark the farmer

The family moved to Edington Mains Farm in May 1942, the only son of James and Helen, he had four sisters, Mattie, Susan, Isobel and Betty. Jim had been driving on the family farms since he was nine, his first tractor driving job, for sixpence an hour at harvest time, was when he was aged just ten.

At every opportunity he was behind the wheel of a vehicle. His father owned a 1930 Alvis Speed Twenty and once it was seen apparently driverless on the farm. Jim’s father told the visitors that it was Jim, completely invisible behind the wheel.

Now a private home, we would ask you to respect the privacy of the current owners of Edington Mains.

BERWICK UPON TWEED

The Club where Jim Clark’s motorsport career began

Introduced to Berwick & District Motor Club by his friend Ian Scott-Watson, Jim’s career started at the club with basic driving tests and club races through to the Border Reivers years.

Ian Scott-Watson is widely regarded as the person responsible for Jim Clark’s early racing career, competing in saloon, sports cars and rallies, with both young farmers living close to the Charterhall and Winfield racing circuits.

WINFIELD AIRFIELD

Home of the first ever official Scottish motor race meeting

In 1950, three locals were looking for somewhere to practice before taking part in English motor racing events. The three, Alec Calder (Jim’s brother in law), David Swan and Jock McBain used Winfield, a neighbouring wartime aerodrome.

The track was laid out using a part of the runway and much hard work and preparation was put in before Winfield held the first ever official race meeting in Scotland on Saturday 7th October 1950. Over the next 18 months Winfield played host to many motor car and motorcycle race meetings and even welcomed Stirling Moss as an up and coming driver. These race meetings at Winfield would attract an incredible 40,000 to 50,000 spectators!

CHARTERHALL AIRFIELD

Where Jim Clark saw his first motor race in Scotland

Today only a few military buildings survive at this former wartime aerodrome, now on a private road, the Richard Hillary Memorial is a fitting point at which to stop close by.

After the war, Charterhall was only used by farmers, but the aerodrome was a natural location for a race-track. The first Charterhall race meeting was held on Saturday 31st May 1952, it was the longest lasting of the early circuits in Scotland and was in operation until the early 1960’s. With its wide three-quarter mile straight it could easily accommodate the most powerful cars of the day. An entry list for the International meeting in August 1955 read like a ‘Who’s Who’ of motor racing at that time: the venue saw Moss, Hawthorn, Farina, Abecassis and Parnell competing there.

The first motor race that Jim Clark saw in Scotland was at Charterhall in October 1952, of course, Jim would go on to regularly compete at Charterhall early in his career.

Charterhall is not accessible to the public.

JIM CLARK CAFÉ & BISTRO

17 Market Street. Duns. TD11 3BY

Enjoy breakfast, Lunch, Coffees, Teas and delicious home baked scones and cakes – the perfect place to make a pitstop as you start or finish the Jim Clark Trail.

DONATE TO THE TRAIL AND TRUST

The Jim Clark Trail is free to enhance the experience of visitors to the museum and promote tourism and culture in the Scottish Borders. To support the charity, www.justgiving.com/jimclarktrust

www.jimclarktrust.com